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vicontheinternet · 3 months

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Happy black history month never forget

#black history #black history month #history #us history #history they never teach us #history things #important

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wittyhistorian · 10 months

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soooo are we going to talk how the Titan isn't the first Titan to be connected to the titanic?

If it's named Titan or Titanic, we don't get on it fam.

#titanic #The Titan #Futility #History things

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enchi-elm · 9 months

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Caleb Brewster's signature, an evolution 1778-1780

We start off reasonable and professional, in a letter to Benjamin Tallmadge dated October 22, 1778:

Caleb Brewster Lieut

Source: Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/resource/mgw4.053_0566_0567/?sp=1

That's good, you know, pretty solid. Clean, neat, mindful of his military position. Then a bizarre and exciting change of pace in a letter to Benjamin Tallmadge dated February 26, 1779.

I am with respect yours [etc.?] Caleb Brewster

Source, Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/resource/mgw4.056_0281_0284/?sp=4&st=image

Incredible. Diva. I'm amazed he found stable ground to write this on and enough time to compose two pages. The "B" should be framed and taught in calligraphy classes. In the same letter, he writes a "g" so effusive it bisects New York in the row below to land on "at".

Was it too much? Did he fly too close to the sun? Has he since grown more secure in his correspondence or is this him at his most confident? Either way, 18 months later we see a more subdued return to form in a letter to Benjamin Tallmadge dated August 18, 1780.

With respect your friend and Humble Servant Caleb Brewster

Source: Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/resource/mgw4.069_0709_0710/?sp=1

No flourishes, short lines-- in fact, a total lack of swoops throughout the entire letter. But he's become a friend! Aww. I wish I knew what Maj. Tallmadge had written in return.

Other things I have found out while doodling on the themes of Chapter 18 of Wind and Water and researching tangents,

Caleb and Ben owned land together (?!?!), purchased August 5, 1784: "The Middle of the Island Farm" in Brookhaven Twp. and four lots in Nocamack. (The source given, that I can't access, is this: Page 251 Loyalism in New York during the American Revolution by Alex C Flick PhD. Columbia Univ. Press, London 1901. Accessed Meehan-411 16 Jan 2020.)

Caleb's father's name was Benjamin, likely the reason his son was also called Benjamin (another son was named Daniel, for his grandfather). His first daughter was named after his mother, Sarah.

He had three half-sisters from his father's first or second wife? (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Brewster-1687) Except the birth dates make it seem like Caleb was somehow born between the last two? Someone messed up the geneology there, or we're talking bigamy.

#yes I am roasting a man who died 196 years ago about his signature #history things #18th Century #caleb brewster #turn amc #American Revolution #tallster

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my-deer-friend · 2 months

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What sites are you going to visit in New York? Will you take pictures??

So far on my list of history things:

Battery Park

Fraunces Tavern

Trinity Church

Idk generally walking around the southern part of Manhattan

Hamilton's Grange

Maybe the Morris-Jumel mansion if I have time when I'm in the area

And besides that I am going on a tour of the UN, devoting a whole day to the Metropolitan Museum of Art (which also has some history things) and generally being a tourist-nuisance/getting underfoot in Central Park, Broadway, etc. I also want to see if I can find some specialist bookstores and antique shops that I can stop in on the way to somewhere else.

I have three days and change, so I think that's about as much as I can cram in. But – always open to suggestions if anyone has them!

#new york #history things #damn right i'll take pictures!!

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f1-disaster-bi · 24 days

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Hey there. This is totally un-F1-related but I just saw your tags about the PhD you're doing and have a book recommendation for you: "Beyond The Wall" by Katja Hoyer. It's probably only semi-related to your subject but it's a fascinating and very well written insight into life behind the Iron Curtain in the GDR, with a lot of attention paid to Stalinist Berlin.

Of course, given you have to focus so much time and energy on the effect of that dreadful man on the Eastern Bloc countries, you might be thinking, "Please! Not another book about my PhD subject. I need FLUFF!!" 😏

That has actually been on my list!! The little collection of East and Central European history lecturers and PhDs have been trying to bribe our library into getting even one copy of it!

And it would definetly be a something worth reading for me and my studies! Especially for my literature review because it's always handy to have other research listed to show how you strutted your own. I was actually asked about this when interviewing for the funding I won. They asked me if they were any books from the 20th Century and 21st Century that could provide an outline towards how to approach my topic.

Two other books that I love and are a good read are: Unfinished Utopia: Nowa Huta, Stalinism and Polish Society 1949-1956 by Katherine and also Magnetic Moutain by Stephan Kotkin!

I can't say too much about my work because I don't want to dox myself, but this is right up my all. My dissertation is actually a comparative study of a city in the GDR and in Czechoslovkia!

My previous works have all been in a similar vein! My undergrad thesis focused on German citizens facing legalised terror tactics in the last year's of WWII and the concept of everyday resistance (coined by James C Scott) and my Masters was a study of grassroots movements among workers under Stalinism in the lead up to the 1956 uprisings in Poland and Hungary (can you tell I like a good comparative study? 😅)

I'm also actually (hopefully) writing a review on a book about the development of culture under Communism in a city in the GDR and in Poland 👀

#history things #emmy speaks history #i sound smarter than i am

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peaceloveandhistory · 5 months

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Fun fact: Samuel Clemens, better known as Mark Twain was born November 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri. That same day Halley's Comet could be seen lighting up the night sky, two weeks after the perihelion. In 1909 Mark Twain commented, "I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, with no doubt: 'Now here are these unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.'" Twain would pass away on April 21, 1910, in Stormfield, Redding, Connecticut, one day after Haley's comet reached its perihelion.

Source: https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/future/miscellany/mark-twain-again-follows-halleys-comet

(https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/future/miscellany/mark-twain-again-follows-halleys-comet)

Historic Interpreter at the Mark Twain House & Museum

#histoire #history #history in the making #history is awesome #history of science #history stuff #historyposting #today in history #halleys comet #mark twain #history lesson #space #connecticut #comet #history tumblr #history things #history today #quotes #quoteoftheday

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flowersarefreetherapy · 4 months

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the universe really goofed up because I am clearly supposed to be a chimney sweep in the 1800s

#yes my favorite chore is cleaning my parents’ fireplace #no I will not be taking any questions at the moment #not whump #marz actually talks #history things

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troythecatfish · 3 months

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faceofpoe · 6 months

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Added some Pen[n]sylvania flavor to my tiny collection of History Nerd Teas today.

#Tea things #Nerd things #History things #Triple winner

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neverinadream · 1 year

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you wanna know what i'll never understand: holocaust deniers. maybe it's because i have devoted a big portion of my life to learning about history, but when i do see them saying so confidently with their chests that this never happened it numbs my mind so much. like how can you be so fucking stupid?! it hasn't even been a hundred years, we still have survivors who are still alive and telling their accounts of what happened and i can't even begin to imagine how they feel when these twats turn around and say "oh but it never happened"

sorry, something popped up on my fyp, and then this came to mind.

#history things

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that-pissed-off-tolkien-blogger · 1 year

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if anyone needs me I'm about to piss off a bunch of people by calling out the Catholic Church of the Renaissance era for what it really was

#TOLK Man talks #and if you don't like it then open a fucking history book #not fandom #history things #school things

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aceofthyme · 2 years

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Y’all. I commissioned @chewytran to do a piece with my darling boy Capt. Timothy Dodge and I am in utter awe, I just

Like look at him!! My boy!! Tim!!

It was utterly wonderful working with her, if y’all are looking to commission some art I cannot possibly recommend her enough!

#like genuinely one of the best artists i’ve worked with for a commission #if you’re looking to commission someone. again. highly recommended!#and look at my boy i’m in actual *tears*#timothy dodge #not my art #history things

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enchi-elm · 9 months

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Caleb and Ben bought land!

I have found the source!

"Loyalism in New York during the American Revolution", found (where else) on Archive.org, a website I will be donating my entire first paycheck to when I find employment again for saving my ass at least a dozen times this year and that is not an exaggerated number. (https://archive.org/details/loyalisminnewyor00flic/page/252/mode/2up)

Page 251-252:

The entry notes that the Loyalist owner of the land, Richard Floyd, disposessed of his land by attainder, had his land sold to "Benj. Talmage and Caleb Brewster" for 730 pounds, covering The Middle of the Island Farm in Brookhaven township, 4 1/3 lors, about 320 acres, "reserving to William Floyd, Esq., and to his heirs and assigns one lot and one-half lot of the above described lands claimed by him as his property." The land was bordered in the north by William Clark, east by William Smith, south by John Homan, and west by the Connecticut River.

Parker Wickham, also under attainder, had his land sold for 1250 pounds to Ben and Caleb. It was a "tract in Southold township known as Robin's Island, about 350 acres. No definite boundary given."

(5K, domesticity, bittersweet ending, but hey that's just where my mind goes.)

There's more, though. With some... familiar names.

We've got a listing for a Joseph Brewster of Brook Haven Township, buying land bordered by a Benjamin Floyd. I cannot for the life of me find a Joseph in Caleb's known family tree but maybe I'm using incomplete information.

(EDIT: FOUND HIM! And you'll never guess where. You know Abraham Woodhull, the Abraham Woodhull, well he had a daughter, Elizabeth, who married an Isaac Brewster, who is the son of a Joseph Brewster from Setauket. If this is the same Joseph, he's Abe's daughter's in-laws. They're parent-in-laws. What the-- Oh, and is this Joseph a direct relation to Caleb Brewster? I honestly don't know, WikiTree is so unhelpful in mapping out these families.)

Benjamin Floyd himself is buying land that's bordered in the east by a Nathaniel Woodhull -- land that was Richard Floyd's, taken by attainder. Is this Woodhull a relation to Abe? No idea. Is Benjamin Floyd a relation to Richard Floyd? Could a family member buy land that had been taken by attainder?

And then we've got Caleb Brewster himself throwing in lots, literally, with the same Benjamin Floyd, buying four lots in Nocamock.

(Benjamin Tallmadge, you may remember, married a Mary Floyd, though I can't find evidence of a Benjamin in her family).

Ooooh I wanna know, I wanna know so bad. What was going on here? How did they all know each other? And did they?

#what was going ooooooooon #history things #American Revolution #tallster #turn amc #caleb brewster #benjamin tallmadge #18th Century #sometimes I think #I'm ready to let this ship go after I finish my WIPs #and then I learn they bought an island #and I'm like #I will never be free

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candy-corn-slut · 2 years

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literally it just occurred to me that there’s no way that emily gilmore went to yale. she was born in 1942, so she would have been entering college in 1960, but yale didn’t first admit women until 1969, one year after lorelai was born and well after emily would have graduated.

#unless i’m misremembering and she didn’t actually go to yale?#but yeah #gilmore girls #emily gilmore #history things

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agenderhyde · 2 years

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absolutely need to bring this up in the next class discussion but. the ableism involved in saying "transcribing oral histories is too expensive and time consuming" and preferring that people listen to these histories instead of reading them (yes, there'd be nuance lost; tone can't be conveyed in exactly the same way via text vs speech) is.... disheartening?

if an oral history only exists in an audio format, that harms several groups and prevents them from accessing the source----those who are HOH, those who have audio processing issues, and those for whom the recording isn't in their first language.

#cloudy rambles #college things.#history things #liron's grad school adventures #one of the things that i've noticed in discussions of accessibility #in both of my courses #is that lack of discussion of disability access #and the presumption that everyone can utilize sources in the same way #as someone with audio processing & attention issues: transcripts are a LIFESAVER

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peaceloveandhistory · 6 months

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Today in 1938 Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann first synthesized lysergic acid diethylamide. It wouldn't be until years later in 1943 that Dr. Hofmann discovered the effects of what is commonly called LSD. He accidentally absorbed a small amount through his fingertips. Dr. Hofmann then experienced two hours of a "not unpleasant intoxicated-like condition."

Fun fact, Dr. Andrew Hoffman died in 2008 at 102 years old.

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